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Slack’s new integration deal with AWS could also be about tweaking Microsoft

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Ron Miller

Slack and Amazon announced a big integration late yesterday afternoon. As part of the deal, Slack will use Amazon Chime for its call feature, while reiterating its commitment to use AWS as its preferred cloud provider to run its infrastructure. At the same time, AWS has agreed to use Slack for internal communications. Make no […] Continue reading Slack’s new integration deal with AWS could also be about tweaking Microsoft→

In spite of pandemic (or maybe because of it), cloud infrastructure revenue soars

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Ron Miller

It’s fair to say that even before the impact of COVID-19, companies had begun a steady march to the cloud. Maybe it wasn’t fast enough for AWS, as Andy Jassy made clear in his 2019 Re:invent keynote, but it was happening all the same and the steady revenue increases across the cloud infrastructure market bore […] Continue reading In spite of pandemic (or maybe because of it), cloud infrastructure revenue soars→

DoD Inspector General report finds everything was basically hunky-dory with JEDI cloud contract bid

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Ron Miller

While controversy has dogged the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI contract since its earliest days, a report by the DoD’s Inspector General’s Office concluded today that, while there were some funky bits and potential conflicts, overall the contract procurement process was fair and legal and the president did not unduly influence the process in spite of […] Continue reading DoD Inspector General report finds everything was basically hunky-dory with JEDI cloud contract bid→

Big opening for startups that help move entrenched on-prem workloads to the cloud

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Ron Miller

AWS CEO Andy Jassy showed signs of frustration at his AWS re:Invent keynote address in December. Customers weren’t moving to the cloud nearly fast enough for his taste, and he prodded them to move along. Some of their hesitation, as Jassy pointed out, was due to institutional inertia, but some of it also was due […] Continue reading Big opening for startups that help move entrenched on-prem workloads to the cloud→

Amazon wants to depose president and Secretary of Defense as part of JEDI protest

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Ron Miller

Today, AWS made public its Motion to Supplement the Record in its protest of the JEDI contract decision. As part of that process, the company has announced it wants to depose President Trump and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. When Amazon announced at the end of last year, that it was protesting the DoD’s decision […] Continue reading Amazon wants to depose president and Secretary of Defense as part of JEDI protest→

Even as Microsoft Azure revenue grows, AWS’s market share lead stays strong

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Ron Miller

When analyzing the cloud market, there are many ways to look at the numbers; revenue, year-over-year or quarter-over-quarter growth — or lack of it — or market share. Each of these numbers tells a story, but in the cloud market, where aggregate growth remains high and Azure’s healthy expansions continues, it’s still struggling to gain […] Continue reading Even as Microsoft Azure revenue grows, AWS’s market share lead stays strong→

Despite JEDI loss, AWS retains dominant market position

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Ron Miller

AWS took a hard blow last year when it lost the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract to rival Microsoft. Yet even without that mega deal for building out the nation’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, the company remains fully in control of the cloud infrastructure market — and it intends to fight that decision. In […] Continue reading Despite JEDI loss, AWS retains dominant market position→

AWS speeds up Redshift queries 10x with AQUA

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Frederic Lardinois

At its re:Invent conference, AWS CEO Andy Jassy today announced the launch of AQUA (the Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift, the company’s data warehousing service. As Jassy noted in his keynote, it’s hard to scale data warehouses when you want to do analytics over that data. At some point, as your data warehouse or […] Continue reading AWS speeds up Redshift queries 10x with AQUA→

New Synergy Research report finds enterprise data center market is strong for now

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Ron Miller

Conventional wisdom would suggest that in 2019, the public cloud dominates and enterprise data centers are becoming an anachronism of a bygone era, but new data from Synergy Research finds that the enterprise data center market had a growth spurt last year. In fact, Synergy reported that overall spending in enterprise infrastructure, which includes elements […] Continue reading New Synergy Research report finds enterprise data center market is strong for now→